She also shares a second single, "Perform For You", a melancholy meditation on the power dynamics in toxic relationships. Inspired by novels that Brooke was reading at the time.

She probes beneath the surface of a doomed romance from the get-go. 

“It’s like surrendering to something, even though you know it’s never going to work, realising you’re so dependent on someone and knowing

your presence in that relationship. It’s love in the worst way.” she says.  
 “‘Perform For You’ is probably my favorite, because it reminds me of lots

of the music I love. Once we’d recorded that, I knew we were making

an album. Musically it was exactly where I wanted to be.” 

 Everyday Nothing follows two EPs of music shored up by intense reflection, which has earned

the 23 year old many admirers and a rapidly growing fanbase. 

Brooke writes sharp and eloquent songs about her experiences as she understands them,

using words and music to resolve and record the tensions of young adulthood.

Confronted with the mundanities of life and caught between two jobs in London,

she finds intense lyricism in the struggle for purpose and direction.
 
The album is, in her words, “in part an ode to the little moments in life,

the frustration of being young and unaware of what you want,

but getting older and realising you still don’t know. It’s an album

I searched for myself in, filled with questions I asked myself."
 
Written entirely by Brooke, with a few contributions from producer Bill Ryder-Jones (who’s own album Yawn was showered with 4 and 5 star reviews last year), Everyday Nothing documents

a fast-rising 23-year-old looking to make sense of her existence.  
 
So impressed was Ryder-Jones with Brooke’s observational lyricism that he said: 

"I've worked with some amazing songwriters in my career.

I think Brooke at 23 is well on her way to being up there with Alex (Turner), Saint Saviour, Mick (Head) and James (Skelly). Her lyric writing will be overlooked because of her voice but it is her words that will set her apart from others.”
 
"Perform For You" follows "All My Friends Are Drunk" released early October which was the first taster of Everyday Nothing. A looser indie rock sound than her previous EPs pitched somewhere between Mazzy Star, Yo La Tengo, Sparklehorse and early Angel Olsen and nods to the ‘90s rock bands she was listening to leading up to the album being written, notably Low, 

Yo La Tengo and Broadcast.
 
Brooke heads out on Sam Fender’s sold out UK tour on the 22nd November as his main support with Bill joining her live band. Brooke has also just announced a free solo show 

on Monday 9th December at The Islington, sign up here.
 
For three years she busked and played pubs and open-mic nights around Newcastle,

often sharing a stage with her friend Fender, who stole her version of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In the Dark’. He will finally repay the favour by taking Brooke on tour starting at Manchester Academy with two Brixton Academy dates. 
 
Everyday Nothing soundtracks the reality for many young people today. One in which hopes

and dreams play out in a haze of confusion and frustration. Brooke captures this existential vulnerability, the baffling day to day-ness of a young life in the most relatable, poetic

and compelling of works.  “A lot of life is boring and predictable,

but I hope this album is a way of saying that with some charm."

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LIVE DATES

 

NOVEMBER
 
22nd, Manchester Academy, Manchester ^       
23rd, Guild of Students Liverpool, Liverpool ^    
25th, O2 Academy Glasgow, Glasgow ^
26th, Rock City, Nottingham ^   
28th, O2 Academy Leeds, Leeds ^           
30th, Brighton Dome, Brighton ^
 
DECEMBER
 
2nd, Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth ^     
4th, O2 Academy Bristol, Bristol ^            
5th, O2 Academy Birmingham, Birmingham ^     
7th, O2 Academy Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne ^
9th, The Islington, London (Free headline solo show)     
10th, O2 Academy Brixton, London ^
11th, O2 Academy Brixton, London ^     
13th, Great hall, Cardiff ^
14th, O2 Academy Bournemouth, Bournemouth ^          
16th, Olympia, Dublin ^
17th, Ulster hall , Belfast ^           
19th, O2 Academy Sheffield, Sheffield ^
 
MARCH
 
14th, Whelan’s, Dublin
16th, Yes, Manchester
18th, The Crofters Rights, Bristol
19th, Omeara, London
21st, Upstairs @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
23rd, Privatclub, Berlin

All tickets available here - https://www.brookebentham.co.uk/home

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